VVOL
Hi My customer wish to implement VVOL solution. They have existing virtual machines which now they wanted to move it to VVOL datastore. What is the best practices/method to move a VM from vSphere...
View Articleunable to add a converterd VM to inventory
Hi everyone I used vmware converter to convert a physical Windows 2003 machine, During the conversion i used this option when selecting destination type : Vmware workstation or other Vmware Virtual...
View ArticlePSC MultiSite joining issue
Hi There, We are in a processing of joining SSO 5.5 U3 into multiSite configuration to a PSC 6.0U1b running on secondary site. Once the connection is established, we will upgrade SSO 5.5U3 to identical...
View ArticlevSphere 6 Web client display scale
Hi, in the vSphere 6 Web client, the visual size of text and icons appears uncomfortably small, the smaller text in the lower panes even approaching 1mm in height on a 22in display. This seems not to...
View ArticlevCenter MIBs for 3rd party monitoring software
Hello, I've configured vCSA 6 to send SNMP traps to 3rd party monitoring system. Loaded the following MIBs to that same monitoring system. While preforming a test, using "Virtual machine CPU usage"...
View Articledisk latency
Hi i am new to vmware,I can see error VM total disk latency for a VM.What could be the possible reasons for this error to occur.1. For example any activity like backup or antivirus scanning going on.2....
View ArticleCan't update vCenter
i have vCenter Server 5.1.1064983 and I wanted to update to 5.1.0-1235309.step one - updating SSO. I enter master password and get an error - Provider password is wrong or empty.I try to login to...
View ArticleSeveral problems with vCenter on appliance
Hi all,I have some problems with my vcenter. version is 6.0.0.10200First, one service is on critical warning. the vmware syslog-service reports that /storage/log has less than 15% of free space.Second,...
View ArticleAny way to reset the VAMI Administrator password, on vCenter Server Appliance...
I am running the vCenter Server Appliance (v. 6.0.0 Build 2997665) as a VM and it’s working but I’m not able to log into the VAMI UI on port 5480. Using the same Administrator credentials that I use to...
View ArticleWhy every domain user can login to vcenter appliance via vsphere web client?
Hi I created new vcenter appliance, set up AD auth, gave my domain account to admin group and moved hosts to new vcenter.I can login with domain account, got VM etc.But what it bothers me is one thing:...
View ArticleError while extracting local SSO users again :(
I went trough the forums history and the knowledge database.I try all the effort to configure the AD connection with the vCenter, but I still got error in the vCenter web client.The Identity-source...
View ArticleVcenter login
i saw a vcenter . All account vsphere.local\xxx why all login account like that. Why they arent use ad account ?
View ArticlevSphere client on a Windows 10 machine - mouse problems inside VM consoles
Aloha,I just upgraded to Windows 10 Pro. I am also using vSphere client 5.5.0 Build 1618071.When managing vm's all is good and right with the world. But when I accessa vm console - either by the tab or...
View ArticleCloning a powered on vApp
Hi, Quick question please which i cant seem to find a definitive answer for When Cloning a vApp in the vSphere Client or the vSphere WC it seems to only be enabled when it is powered off.Reading the...
View ArticleCannot Start vCenter Server Appliance - "Waiting for vpxd to initialize:...
I am stumped. At first, I was able to at least login to vsphere and do operations. The client would close like every 15 minutes so it got really annoying. Now I am stuck with no launch to vsphere. I...
View ArticlevCenter 5.5 Installation failing.
Hello Guys, It's a brand new server with Windows 2008 R2 installed from scratch with all updates. vCenter Single Sign-On, Web Client, and Inventory Service gets installed with no issues but during the...
View ArticlevCenter Server Appliance 5.5 can't add SSO Identity Source
I'm trying to add an "Active Directory as an LDAP server" Identity Source on our 5.5 vcsa and keep receiving the following message even though there's no Identity Source listed in...
View Articlehost inventory in web client keeps disapearing
Hello everyone,I have an open ticket with PSS about this but while I wait for them to investigate may get an answer here. The problem is that when I click on a cluster in web client, I am able to see a...
View ArticleNew VCSA shell considered dangerous :)
FYI,we have a training setup where we run plenty of VCSAs for labs, and it happened the other day that the storage decided to go south.Not bad, just in the midle of a course When I was trying to...
View ArticlevCenter Root Self-Signed Cert used with internal CNAME
I'm not sure if this is a VMware related question or if it would be better suited for a Microsoft or Security forum. I managed to successfully install the Root Self-Signed certificate via GPO and now...
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